The ancestror of the king. A piece used in Shatranj which moved like the king today.
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Quotes of the Day
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”
Tony Miles
Chess is my hobby. I have been playing chess since five years old. I like to play chess, to help chess, sponsoring chess, and attract my business friends to chess in order to develop and popularize chess. Everybody has a hobby. My hobby is chess, boxing and Buddhism.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 2010
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.
Vishy Anand 2008
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
